Hensting Alpacas

About

Come and Join us here in Otterbourne Hampshire, when the weather is good we like to walk our Alpacas. 

This allows you the general public to come and get up close to these beautiful animals, hear them hum to each other, feel how soft their fleece is and look into their big brown eyes! It also serves us a purpose as we get them used to people and being handled on the halters, which in turn trains them for the shows that we enter. 

The money we collect helps towards the cost of feeding them.  Otterbourne is a small secluded village were the chalk streams meander along ancient river beds, to the sea 11 miles away.  We own 12 acres of grasslands alongside The Itchen Navigation; this part of the river was used years ago to transport goods by way of barge to Winchester, London and beyond. 

We do not see any boats on the river now, they have long gone.  Animals have returned to the quiet environment as we have otter, king fisher, dragon fly and all manner of insects and butterflies-